Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, August 2026

Name: Provinces of Spain by registered unemployment, August 2026
Creator: Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal
License: Spanish public sector information reuse (Ley 37/2007, attribution required)

Madrid province had the highest registered unemployment of 52 provinces in August 2026, at 280,486. Soria province had the lowest, at 2,481. The median was 28,056 and the figure for Spain was 2.35 million. Source: the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Highest280,486Madrid province

Lowest2,481Soria province

Median28,05652 provinces

Spain2,352,221History

All provinces, August 2026

CSV Chart (SVG)

persons. Source: SEPE. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

Full ranking

Rank	Provinces	August 2026 persons	Change on August 2025
1	Madrid province Estimated	280,486	+0.1%
2	Barcelona province Estimated	247,374	+0.7%
3	Valencia province Estimated	145,219	-0.8%
4	Seville province	132,842	-9.2%
5	Alicante province Estimated	116,862	-1.2%
6	Málaga province	97,095	-10.7%
7	Cádiz province	95,903	-11.9%
8	Murcia province	75,993	+2.4%
9	Las Palmas province	74,777	-4.4%
10	Santa Cruz de Tenerife province	69,682	-3.2%
11	Granada province	61,217	-8.5%
12	Biscay province Estimated	60,461	-1.6%
13	Asturias province	48,580	+0.6%
14	Córdoba province	45,822	-12.6%
15	A Coruña province	43,914	+0.7%
16	Toledo province Estimated	43,517	-0.9%
17	Pontevedra province	41,298	-1.9%
18	Almería province Estimated	39,766	-8.6%
19	Badajoz province Estimated	39,712	-7.5%
20	Zaragoza province Estimated	39,022	+2.6%
21	Tarragona province Estimated	37,781	+0.2%
22	Castellón province Estimated	32,364	+1.4%
23	Ciudad Real province Estimated	30,722	-1%
24	Jaén province	30,673	-12.8%
25	Navarre province Estimated	29,365	+4.1%
26	Gipuzkoa province Estimated	28,466	-2.9%
27	Girona province Estimated	27,646	-1.3%
28	Cantabria province Estimated	26,992	-0.6%
29	Huelva province	26,931	-12%
30	Balearic Islands province Estimated	25,703	-1%
31	Valladolid province Estimated	21,634	+2.4%
32	Cáceres province Estimated	20,949	-4.8%
33	Albacete province Estimated	20,698	-0.7%
34	León province Estimated	19,395	-1.8%
35	Álava province Estimated	17,882	-2.7%
36	Lleida province Estimated	16,367	+4.7%
37	Salamanca province Estimated	15,081	-2.2%
38	Ourense province	13,358	+0.1%
39	Burgos province Estimated	12,660	+1%
40	La Rioja province Estimated	12,324	+2.3%
41	Guadalajara province Estimated	12,101	+3.6%
42	Lugo province	11,121	+4.3%
43	Cuenca province Estimated	8,606	+4.7%
44	Ceuta province	8,241	-10.2%
45	Zamora province Estimated	7,611	-0.9%
46	Ávila province Estimated	7,476	-0.9%
47	Melilla province	7,392	-1.8%
48	Huesca province Estimated	6,704	+9.6%
49	Palencia province Estimated	5,834	+1.7%
50	Segovia province Estimated	4,250	-1.1%
51	Teruel province Estimated	3,871	+4.8%
52	Soria province Estimated	2,481	+9.1%

Other periods

About this ranking

Job seekers registered as unemployed at public employment offices on the last working day of the month.

Administrative count, available down to municipality. Not the survey-based unemployment rate.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the provinces are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE). Paro registrado por municipios. https://sede.sepe.gob.es/es/portaltrabaja/resources/sede/datos_abiertos/datos/Paro_por_municipios_2026_csv.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

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Questions

Which province has the highest registered unemployment?

Madrid province, with 280,486 in August 2026, according to the Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal.

Which province has the lowest registered unemployment?

Soria province, with 2,481 in August 2026.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal, Paro registrado por municipios. Retrieved 2026-10-08.